# @yourmindandme on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CCUME4TJBwu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/12267902-yourmindandme-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-07-06T21:18:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pooja Mamidanna (@yourmindandme) — https://gondola.cc/yourmindandme

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✨MONDAY MANTRA PART 1✨⁣
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July is  BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month. ⁣
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✨As an immigrant woman of color, there is not a day that goes by when I don’t reflect on the privilege I hold in my life. The reflection of my privilege began as a young child. When you are raised in an immigrant family, you are always educated on this. My family worked hard for generations to provide me with this life.⁣
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✨I grew up in an orthodox South Indian family. While I was very happy to learn about my family’s ethics/values towards their professional goals, I was also disappointed with some of the systemic racist ideologies they had of other populations of color! I can reflect back to being in the second grade, questioning and arguing with their ideologies. This is something I still do with my family as well, by providing constant education to dismantle the antiracist ideologies present in my family’s belief system.⁣
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✨My education towards cultural competency began at my school. I had the privilege of studying in an international school from kindergarten to grade 12, I had friends from different walks of life and very few South Asian classmates. Majority of my friends are biracial and have multiethnic backgrounds.⁣
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✨My education towards cultural humility began, when I started my journey studying psychology and pursuing my career to be a Psychotherapist. I’m grateful to my amazing professors, clinical supervisors and mentors for challenging me further and making me reflect on the privileges I bring into the therapy room.⁣
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✨The reason I’m writing about privilege is, right now more than ever, our brothers and sisters from these beautiful communities need us to step up our game of advocacy.⁣
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✨We are all aware of the COVID -19 racial pandemic we are currently residing in. This ongoing multigenerational racial trauma causes severe impairments for the mental health and wellbeing for our communities of color. ⁣
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💚We need to come together in solidarity to collectively grow and heal as a community.⁣
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#BIPOCMentalHealthMonth⁠ #mentalhealthamerica⁠⁣
#ImpactOfTrauma⁠⁣
#BIPOCMentalHealthAwarenessMonth⁠⁣
#BIPOCmhm⁠⁣
#BIPOCmhm20 #mentalhealthadvocate

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